Editing Pope Paul VI (section)

===Death===
[[File:Negativos 2934.jpg|thumb|Paul VI's body in the Vatican after his death]]
[[File:SanctusPaulusVI.jpg|thumb|Tomb of Paul VI following his canonisation in October 2018]]

From his bed he participated in Sunday Mass at 18:00. After receiving communion, the Pope suffered a massive heart attack, after which he lived on for three more hours. On 6 August 1978 at 21:41, Paul VI died in Castel Gandolfo.<ref name="Hebblethwaite 707" /> Before he died, the pontiff had been lucid after the first heart attack. An hour before his death, he said he felt dizzy and asked those present to continue the prayers in his stead. Present at his bedside at the time of his death were Cardinal [[Jean-Marie Villot]], Bishop [[Giuseppe Caprio]], and his personal secretary [[Pasquale Macchi]], as well as two nuns and his personal physician. By the time the Pope died, he was already confined to bed due to a flare up in his chronic joint arthritis and could not get up to personally celebrate the Mass.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lmtribune.com/flashback/pope-paul-vi-dies/article_3d7a3b76-36f8-5040-8dc5-a8641baa920e.html|title=Pope Paul VI dies|publisher=Lewiston Tribune|date=7 August 1978|accessdate=10 February 2022|archive-date=24 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124082904/https://lmtribune.com/flashback/pope-paul-vi-dies/article_3d7a3b76-36f8-5040-8dc5-a8641baa920e.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Upon the initial heart attack, the Pope was immediately given oxygen; however, the Holy See indicated that his heart condition was aggravated by a [[pulmonary edema]], or the seeping of fluid into the lungs.

[[Syria]]<ref name="larouchepub.com">{{Cite web |title=World Leaders Mourn Pope Paul VI |url=https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1978/eirv05n32-19780822/eirv05n32-19780822_033-world_leaders_mourn_pope_paul_vi.pdf |access-date=11 September 2023 |website=larouchepub.com |archive-date=6 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506165530/https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1978/eirv05n32-19780822/eirv05n32-19780822_033-world_leaders_mourn_pope_paul_vi.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=November 2023}} declared nine days of mourning; [[Egypt]] declared seven days of mourning;<ref name="Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music 2018 z055">{{cite web | title=August 7, 1978 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection | website=Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music | date=2018-08-07 | url=https://pastdaily.com/2018/08/07/august-7-1978-death-of-a-pope-nine-days-of-mourning-choosing-a-successor-the-view-from-castel-gandolfo/ | access-date=2023-11-30 | archive-date=24 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124002538/https://pastdaily.com/2018/08/07/august-7-1978-death-of-a-pope-nine-days-of-mourning-choosing-a-successor-the-view-from-castel-gandolfo/ | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Bolivia]] declared five days of mourning;<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pixilegal.com/normativa/decreto-15703-1978-08-07 | title=Decreto Supremo 15703 &#124; Bolivia }}</ref> [[Spain]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1978-20497 | title=BOE.es - BOE-A-1978-20497 Real Decreto 1854/1978, de 7 de agosto, por el que se declara luto nacional por el fallecimiento de Su Santidad el Papa Pablo VI | access-date=22 May 2022 | archive-date=22 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522100425/https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1978-20497 | url-status=live }}</ref> declared four days of mourning; [[Brazil]],<ref name="larouchepub.com"/>{{unreliable source?|date=November 2023}} [[Italy]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manchesterhistory.org/News/Manchester%20Evening%20Hearld_1978-08-07.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.manchesterhistory.org |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831153159/http://www.manchesterhistory.org/News/Manchester%20Evening%20Hearld_1978-08-07.pdf |archive-date=31 August 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Lebanon]]<ref name="Washington Post 1978 g245">{{cite news | title=World Reacts With Disbelief And Concern | newspaper=Washington Post | date=1978-09-30 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/09/30/world-reacts-with-disbelief-and-concern/b028ccdb-8f52-4bde-9e63-31f56aebc665/ | access-date=2023-11-30 | archive-date=26 March 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326025753/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/09/30/world-reacts-with-disbelief-and-concern/b028ccdb-8f52-4bde-9e63-31f56aebc665/ | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Portugal]],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://casacomum.org/cc/visualizador?pasta=06829.179.28214#!5 | title=06829.179.28214 }}</ref> and [[Zaire]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/08/08/east-west-laud-paul-vi-as-man-of-peace/17d6dab5-4eb2-4a00-9bb0-a1ce09ae379f/ |title=East, West Laud Paul VI as Man of Peace |date=8 August 1978 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409 |access-date=18 August 2022 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326032012/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/08/08/east-west-laud-paul-vi-as-man-of-peace/17d6dab5-4eb2-4a00-9bb0-a1ce09ae379f/ |url-status=live }}</ref> declared three days of mourning; The [[Philippines]] declared one day of mourning.<ref>[https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1978/08/10/proclamation-no-1765-a-s-1978-2/ "Proclamation No. 1765-a, s. 1978"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913055144/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1978/08/10/proclamation-no-1765-a-s-1978-2/ |date=13 September 2021 }} (10 August 1978). ''Official Gazette'' (officialgazette.gov.ph). Retrieved 19 June 2022.</ref>

Paul VI left a will and a spiritual testament.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tanner |first=Henry |date=9 August 1978 |title=Vatican. Workmen Prepare a Tomb for Pope Paul in Crypt Beneath St. Peter's Basilica |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/08/09/archives/vatican-workmen-prepare-a-tomb-for-pope-paul-in-crypt-beneath-st.html |access-date=22 January 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=22 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122165454/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/08/09/archives/vatican-workmen-prepare-a-tomb-for-pope-paul-in-crypt-beneath-st.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Those were released by the Vatican shortly after his death. In it, he asked for his burial to be simple, and that his correspondence, personal memos and other writings be destroyed. He also legated all his belongings to the Vatican.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Claiborne |first=William |date=12 August 1978 |title=Pope Paul's Funeral to Be Held Today |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/08/12/pope-pauls-funeral-to-be-held-today/b7ac40d1-294e-42e0-b6ce-ace7f4475aae/ |access-date=22 January 2023 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=22 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122170139/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/08/12/pope-pauls-funeral-to-be-held-today/b7ac40d1-294e-42e0-b6ce-ace7f4475aae/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Paul VI does not have an ornate [[sarcophagus]], but is buried in a grave beneath the floor of [[Saint Peter's Basilica]], in the [[Vatican Grottoes]] near the tombs of other popes.<ref>{{cite news |author=Kenneth A. Briggs |date=7 August 1978 |title=Pope Paul VI Is Dead of a Heart Attack at 80; Guided the Church Through Era of Change |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0926.html |url-status=dead |access-date=21 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010614192146/https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0926.html |archive-date=14 June 2001}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2019}}

His position mirrors the statements attributed to [[Pius XI]]: "a Pope may suffer but he must be able to function" and by Pius XII.<ref>{{cite journal|first = Robert|last = Leiber|title = Pius XII|publisher = [[Stimmen der Zeit]]|date = December 1958}}</ref> Pope Paul, reflecting on ''[[Hamlet]]'', wrote the following in a private note in 1978:{{Blockquote|What is my state of mind? Am I Hamlet? Or [[Don Quixote]]? On the left? On the right? I do not think I have been properly understood. I am filled with 'great joy (Superabundo gaudio)' With all our affliction, I am overjoyed (2 Cor 2:4).<ref>{{Citation|first=Cathal B|last=Daly|title=Steps on my Pilgrim Journey|publisher=Veritas |year=1998}}</ref>}}

His confessor, the [[Jesuit]] [[Paolo Dezza]], said that "this pope is a man of great joy",{{Sfn| Hebblethwaite|1993|p=339}} and that:

<blockquote>If Paul VI was not a saint, when he was elected Pope, he became one during his pontificate. I was able to witness not only with what energy and dedication he toiled for Christ and the Church but also and above all, how much he suffered for Christ and the Church. I always admired not only his deep inner resignation but also his constant abandonment to divine providence.{{Sfn|Hebblethwaite|1993|p=600}} </blockquote>